About
Fractional CTO and CISO · AI strategy, governance, and cost control
Fractional CTO and CISO leadership for companies putting AI to work: strategy, governance, cost control, and risk in business terms. A CarbeneAI executive holds the seat.
Method
DeRisk, then Unclog, then Scale.
DeRisk is the obligation or failure mode we take off the table before we add technology. Unclog is the workflow, vendor, or handoff eating the week. Scale is what we recommend once those two are named.
An Engaged Seat puts that order on one AI and security systems map in about 30 days. Privilege and autonomy are lanes on the map.
Who we serve
Founders, CEOs, COOs, and boards.
Founders, CEOs, COOs, and boards at companies putting AI to work, including teams too early or too small for a full-time CTO and CISO.
We answer in business terms: what to fund, what to fix, what to accept, and what to retire.
Engagements
One executive in the seat.
A CarbeneAI executive holds the fractional seat for the term. When the work needs a specialist, we bring that practitioner in under the same engagement. The map, the cadence, and the invoice stay with CarbeneAI.
Experience
Experience the team brings.
Our team has led cyber defense, compliance, and risk programs for 20+ years across 6 countries and multiple industries, including healthcare, fintech, retail, manufacturing, telecom and consulting, and delivered large-scale security and compliance programs at Accenture, Dell, EY, Booz Allen Hamilton and AT&T. Technology and security leadership in one seat, reported in business terms.
How we decide
We answer in business terms: what to fund, what to fix, what to accept, and what to retire.
The work lives on one AI and security systems map, with privilege and autonomy (A0 to A4) as lanes.
Our practice
Cyber Defense Tactics
When the plan needs testing, our Cyber Defense Tactics practice runs it.
Proof of judgment, not a storefront.
Endpoint Mesh is published as prior art (concept DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21716611). The AI Governance Toolkit and the Detection Evidence Framework are published CC BY 4.0.
Forge, Specter, Talon, and Harbinger are also public. The publications are how you inspect the judgment. The seat is the offer.
Leadership
Clint Garrison
Founder
Clint Garrison founded CarbeneAI. He has worked in security and technology leadership, and he wrote the AI Governance Toolkit we publish free on GitHub. Engagements are staffed and invoiced as CarbeneAI.